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Supreme Court’s abortion decision causes confusion around abortion status in Michigan

June 28th, 20220 LANSING — After an unprecedented reversal of reproductive rights protections by the country's highest court, there is now some confusion about what that means for abortions among Michigan officials and health care providers. This week, Michigan's governor and attorney general clarified that due to a pending lawsuit in the Michigan...

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State officials react to Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade

June 24th, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has officially overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized women's constitutional right to abortion. The court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority, upheld a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The vote was 5-4 to...

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Fadwa Hammoud wins historic argument before U.S. Supreme Court

April 21st, 20221 DEARBORN — Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud has successfully argued before the highest court in the land after first making history as the first Arab American Muslim woman to do so in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justices rendered a 6-3 opinion in Hammoud's favor and in favor of the state’s stance in the...

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Whitmer files lawsuit to stop state’s abortion law, in case U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe V. Wade

April 8th, 20220 LANSING — Governor Whitmer became the first governor to file a lawsuit to protect abortion rights, in anticipation of a possible overturning of an overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. Whitmer filed the suit using her executive authority to ask the Michigan Supreme Court to immediately resolve whether Michigan’s...

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Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud makes history as first Arab American woman before the Supreme Court

October 4th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud made history on Tuesday as the first Arab American Muslim woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. She argued on behalf of the state in the case Brown v. Davenport. The case was one of the first the Supreme Court heard in its October term, now that the justices have...

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Supreme Court shoots down Republican challenge to Obamacare

June 17th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, failed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday. This was the third such a challenge to the law shot down by the highest court in the country since the law's enactment in 2010. The latest decision by the Supreme Court will keep intact the law,...

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U.S. Supreme Court to hear case involving FBI’s spying on California mosques

June 11th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to look at a decade-long class-action case involving the FBI’s use of an informant to spy on several LA and Orange County mosques, the Courthouse News reported Tuesday. For more than a year, the FBI planted an informant in the mosques and instructed him to coerce and gather...

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New U.S. census data will show which states gain or lose House seats

April 26th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, the U.S. Census Bureau will release the data that determines whether states gain or lose congressional seats and Electoral College votes, setting the stage for a pitched battle over redistricting that could reshape political power in Washington for a decade. Under the U.S. Constitution, the 435 seats...

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U.S. Supreme Court paves way for release of Trump’s tax returns

February 22nd, 20210 NEW YORK — Donald Trump suffered a major setback on Monday in his long quest to conceal details of his finances as the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain the former president's tax returns and other records as part of an accelerating criminal investigation. The justices without comment rebuffed...

Elections

U.S. Supreme Court swiftly ends Trump-backed Texas bid to upend election results

December 11th, 20200 WASHINGTON D.C. — On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a long-shot lawsuit filed by Texas and backed by President Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a crushing setback in his quest to undo his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden. The justices in a brief order said Texas did not have...

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Trump, supporters appeal to Supreme Court, as time runs out on efforts to overturn election

December 11th, 20200 LANSING — Attorneys general from four states, including Michigan, responded on Thursday to a case brought to the U.S. Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his colleagues from 17 other states to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 election. President Trump, who lost the election to Joe Biden, has asked to intervene...

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Supreme Court says American Muslims on No-Fly List for refusing to spy can sue FBI

December 10th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that American Muslims who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List in retaliation for refusing to spy on their communities may sue individual FBI agents for interfering with their freedom to practice their religion. Muhammad Tanvir originally filed the lawsuit in...

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U.S. government ordered to reinstate protections for “Dreamers”

December 5th, 20200 In a rebuke to President Trump’s administration on Friday, a judge ordered the U.S. government to reopen to first-time applicants a program that protects from deportation and grants work permits to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who live in the United States unlawfully after arriving as children. The action by U.S. District Judge...

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U.S. Supreme Court may not have final say in presidential election, despite Trump threat

November 4th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — While President Trump wants the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a presidential race that is still too close to call, it may not be the final arbiter in this election, legal experts said. They said it was doubtful that courts would entertain a bid by Trump to stop the counting of ballots that were received...

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Polarized electorate, mail-in ballots could spark post-election legal “fight of our lives”

November 2nd, 20200 WILMINGTON, DEL — U.S. Election Day on Tuesday has all the ingredients for a drawn-out court battle over its outcome: A highly polarized electorate, a record number of mail-in ballots and some Supreme Court justices who appear ready to step in if there is a closely contested presidential race. The only missing element that would...

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“Baptism by fire” for newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Barrett

October 27th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Newly confirmed conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces a barrage of politically fraught cases in her first days on the job, as the court weighs election disputes and prepares to hear a challenge to the Obamacare healthcare law. On Monday, the Republican-controlled Senate pushed through...

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Trump rejoices as Senate panel approves Barrett while Democrats boycott

October 22nd, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, the Republican-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime Supreme Court seat despite a Democratic boycott, clearing the way for a final Senate confirmation vote planned for Monday. By a 12-0 vote, the panel approved Barrett with...

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Not all is lost after Census count stops, civil rights advocates say

October 16th, 20200 After a Supreme Court ruling this week allowed the Department of Commerce to stop Census enumeration efforts by Friday, Oct. 16, advocates point to other pending rulings and to the Nov. 3 elections as important determinants of what happens with the data that has been collected by the Census Bureau. Arturo Vargas, executive director of...

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Trump’s Supreme Court pick says she is not “hostile” to Obamacare, dodges on abortion

October 13th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) — President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, said on Tuesday at her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing she is not hostile to the Obamacare law, as Democrats have suggested, and declined to specify whether she believes landmark rulings legalizing abortion and gay marriage were properly...

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U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear bid by Iraqis to avoid deportation

July 4th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by a large group of Iraqis convicted of crimes in the United States to prevent imminent deportation to their home country, where they say they could face persecution and torture. The justices let stand a lower court’s 2018 ruling that the federal...

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U.S. Supreme Court blocks citizenship question from 2020 Census, sends issue back to Commerce Department

June 30th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. – A lack of an adequate explanation for the addition of the citizenship question to next year’s Census form has led the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against such an addition. The decision is a significant blow to President Trump’s efforts to undermine the count and prevent nearly 6.5 million people in the country...

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg breaks three ribs due to fall

November 12th, 20180 Washington DC — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her Supreme Court office Wednesday night according to a statement by the Supreme Court. According to the statement, the 85-year-old Ginsburg experienced discomfort at home following the fall and was admitted to George Washington University hospital...

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Here is why U.S. courts abruptly tossed 9,000 deportation cases

October 22nd, 20180 Liliana Barrios was working in a California bakery in July and facing possible deportation when she got a call from her immigration attorney with some good news. The notice to appear in court that Barrios had received in her deportation case hadn’t specified a time or date for her first hearing, noting that they would be determined...

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Yemeni Americans grapple with travel ban fallout as protests erupt in large cities

June 30th, 20181 NEW YORK — Yemeni Americans are most affected by President Trump's Muslim travel ban among the Arab and Muslim Americans. Yemen is one of the countries listed on the third version of the travel ban, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. The ban blocks citizens of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, and...

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Drifting backward, repeating America’s shameful history

June 29th, 20180 Tuesday, June 26, 2018 will be remembered as a shameful day in the history of the United States of America. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump's executive order banning citizens of Muslim-majority nations from entering the country. The decision fulfilled a campaign promise by then-candidate Donald Trump. No one can spin...

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Trump’s Muslim travel ban faces U.S. Supreme Court showdown

April 22nd, 20180 WASHINGTON - The ultimate showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over President Trump’s immigration policies and in particular the “Muslim Travel Ban” is set for Wednesday when the justices hear a challenge to the lawfulness of Trump’s travel ban executive order targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries. The case...

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U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump’s latest Muslim ban go into full effect

December 4th, 20170 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his latest travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect even as legal challenges continue in lower courts. The court, with two of the nine justices dissenting, granted his administration’s...